Phantasm

Chapter 19

Andy groaned as she became conscious again and she heard some shuffling as she lifted her head to see where she was. The woman who came for Alex was standing in front of her as Alex was working on something in the background. 

"What do you want from me?" Andy asked when she realized she was tied to a chair. 

The woman in front of her didn't answer but did walk closer. She smiled a little and slapped Andy across the face. 

Andy gasped in shock at impact and looked at the woman. "You're going to have to do a lot worse than that." Andy spat at the woman and she just laughed. 

"You think I don't know what you've been through? I know everything abut you. I also know you've had a recent brush with death and your leg here is a little sensitive still. You're going to help us and you get to live. If you don't help, you die. It's that simple." The woman explained and Alex walked over. 

"You're going to help us too. We have incentive." Alex smirked and crossed her arms while looking at her enemy. 

"What are you talking about?" Andy asked, fear building inside her. 

"Well, during the breakout of myself, they planted explosives throughout the tower that will go unnoticed until the countdown begins. So if you want to save all of your friends, you're going to help us." Alex explained and Andy tries to hide her fear, but fails. 

"That's why you're going to help. Now let's be begin." The woman says as she sits in a chair across from Andy. 

Alex smiles and walks closer to Andy. "This is going to be fun." Alex whispers to Andy as the woman begins the questions. 

"Where is she Stark?!" Clint yelled at Tony. 

After the break in Tony had hired intense security for each team member but Clint wanted none of it, all he wanted to do was find Andy and the people who took her away from him again. 

"I don't know where she is you yelling at me isn't going to help me find her Barton!" Tony yelled back and Bruce stepped over to Clint who was still fuming. 

"We're going to find her Clint. We're still trying to work through the tracker in Alex's blood so when we figure that out we can find her and then get Andy's location and kill her. She's not staying alive anymore." Bruce explained and Clint nodded a little, not wanting to wait but figuring it was the only option. 

Clint left the lab and walked to the gym, the only place he really spent time in, he didn't really sleep anymore. He had a feeling that something was wrong in the tower but he had no idea what and he had nothing but a gut instinct and he needed more for a full intensive sweep of the tower. 

When Clint got to the gym Natasha was waiting for him with her arms crossed. 

"When was the last time you slept through the night or ate a full meal?" Natasha asked and Clint rolled his eyes as he set down his bag. "You need to take care of yourself so you can kill the bitch when we find her." She added and Clint looked at her. 

"I can't sleep. There's something off, it's a gut feeling. I can't sleep because of it. The last time I ate a full meal was last night, you were there." Clint explained and Natasha just looked at him. 

"What kind of gut feeling?" Natasha asked and Clint sighed a little, finally someone believed him. 

"That we're in danger, like the tower was compromised in some way." Clint explained and Natasha nodded a little. 

"Something's been bothering me since the break in too, I just don't know what. Tony said all of the security cameras were shut off? Even the back up ones, you know Tony has those." Natasha asked and Clint shrugged. "Come on, we have to go talk to Tony about those cameras." She added and pulled him out of the gym and back to the lab. 

"For the millionth time we don't know where she is yet!" Tony exclaimed when he saw Clint back in the lab. 

"That's not what we're here to talk about. You said all of the cameras were shut off or corrupted?" Natasha asked and Tony just nodded. "What about the back up cameras we all know you have?" She asked and Tony looked up and glared slightly at her. 

"How do you know about those?" Tony asked and Natasha rolled her eyes. 

"I'm a spy, I know a lot of things you don't know I know about." Natasha said. Tony opened his mouth to respond but shut it before moving over to the surveillance computer in the lab. 

"What are you thinking?" Tony asked and Natasha, Clint, and Bruce huddled around the computer to look over Tony's shoulders. 

"Both Clint and I have a gut feeling something is off. We wanted to check." Natasha explained as Tony went to the back up cameras. 

Half of them were corrupted but the other half were still there. Thank god for Tony's paranoia sometimes. 

"What are we looking for?" Tony asked as they watched the working cameras. 

"Anything about Alex's cell and who took Andy as well as if anyone added things that aren't supposed to be there." Natasha explained, Clint watching the screens for any sign of Andy. 

The four of them stood in silence, watching the screen, looking for anything. 

"There!" Clint cried as he saw Andy's unconscious body being carried down the staircase in the arms of Alex with another woman next to them. "Who is she?" Clint asked. 

"I know her...we have a problem." Natasha said as she pulled away from the group. "Well this is no surprise, I should've seen it coming. I'm so stupid." She muttered to herself as she paced around the lab, trying to come up with a plan. 

"Nat, who is she?" Tony asked as the three men watched her with concern. 

"She was my teacher. She's one of the higher ups in the red room, or Hydra now. She built the black widow that I am today. She never does the dirty work but she is tied into everything that I did when they were training me. They break people, worse than Andy's seen yet. She's seen a lot of hurt but she hasn't seen this yet. If they're apart of hydra then they might try to make her like Bucky...they might turn her into winter...." Natasha explained as she continued to pace. 

Clint's vision blurred as what Natasha said sunk in. Before anyone could say anything Clint was running out of the lab and to the gym. He needed to find Andy soon, or they all might suffer the consequences.